Saying Good Bye to Jack "GarMan" Barnett

We went to Jack "GarMan" Barnett's memorial service today. It was a good service, the chapel was full and had to bring in extra chairs, his daughter and granddaughter both had written about Jack and the preacher read the stories. They talked about living by the lake and about how Jack built the lake house board by board. They talked about how patient and understanding he could was.Him and Loise have been married for 66 years, wow. One story was about when they went fishing and ran out of gas, funny, me and Jack did that same thing one day when I was fishing with him and we had a guy tow us to his dock. Gar fishing with Garman was very fun, we would troll sometimes and others we would sitecast. Sometimes we would work the docks just like we were bass fishermen! One of the things I love most about gar fishing with Jack was he always said to be at his house by noon!!! Noon, we always fished the afternoons cause he said the gar didn't bite good in the mornings, I love going fishing at NOON!!!
I guess if there is a lesson for me in the passing of Jack it is this, do everything you can to make time to do things with people when you can, I can't tell you how many times Jack told me come up and we will go fishing!!! We did go many times but I should have made time to go more. I knew he was an older gentleman but I thought we had more time. The song "Cats in the Craddle" keeps coming back to me. I only wish we could have gone more. He was a very special friend to me and to a great person who will be sorely missed by all who knew him.

Sad Day for Fishing!

It is a very Sad day for fishing :( 2 things, one my very good friend and fishing buddy Jack "GarMan" Barnett passed recently, he was a really great guy. I will miss him, we had such a blast fishing for Gar on Lanier over the years. A pic of us before one of our Gar fishing trips on Lake Lanier.


Jack Harrison Barnett
Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, in the chapel of Gainesville First United Methodist Church for Mr. Jack Harrison Barnett, 84, of Gainesville,

The other sad thing today is that a very close friend and longtime fishing buddy has disappeared and he left a suicide note. I spent the afternoon helping to search for him at a lake we have fished together often. I hope that he is still alive somewhere but it is not looking good. I will continue to search the lake where he said he was going to do carry it out again tomorrow.
Please pray for their families in this hard time.